How Scholars Have Made Sense of This?

Some scholars say paul unilaterally imposes his own assumptions on to the text so that it can mean whatever he wants it to mean at the time. The problem with that view is that it really doesn't take into account how paul appeals to that text as the basis for his argument. In other words, paul doesn't seem to be merely reading his new covenant rness into the text, but he's rather using this text to argue for a new covenant awareness. So that needs to be taken into account.

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